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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Nintendo DS)

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The Nintendo DS version of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games does a good job of transferring games with motion controls of the Wii version to the DS. And it even comes with some new goodies like a story mode, Olympic wisdom, and... probably the longest loading times in single card download play of any DS game.

Partially-Unused Music#

The music that plays during the biathlon shooting is quite long, but since you only have a certain amount of time to shoot half of the song is never audible.

Anti-Piracy#

This game utilizes the DS Protect anti-piracy library to ensure that it is not being run off a flashcart or emulator. If any of the DS Protect checks fail, the game will corrupt the save data when saving or formatting to either slot 1 and/or 2 by writing incorrect values to them.

(Source: TWiLightMenu AP-patched games list, Original TCRF Research)